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The Get More Smarter Podcast is a weekly, lighthearted overview of Colorado politics. The podcast is hosted by seasoned Colorado politicos Jason Bane of ColoradoPols.com and Ian Silverii, former Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado. Are you ready to Get More Smarter?
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Thus Begins the 'Dave Coin' Economy (feat. Dave Young)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, we take this show on the road to visit State Treasurer *Dave Young *and look at all the weird stuff in the vault near his office. House Speaker *Kevin McCarthy* got a debt ceiling deal that’s about as good as it could possibly be (for Democrats), so don’t tell anyone! Our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado -- Rep. *Lauren Boebert* -- spent so much time trying to get attention for voting no on the debt ceiling bill that she forgot to show up and actually vote no on the debt ceiling deal. And the Denver Mayor’s race ending about as strangely as it began.
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May 29, 2023
Christian Nationalism is Coming for You (feat. Rob Boston)
This week on the* **Get More Smarter Podcast*, the Colorado Republican Party isn’t just morally bankrupt! No, the Grand Old Party may actually be financially bankrupt as well, and the national party may bankrupt the entire nation! Yay, fiscal responsibility! Yet another fiscally conservative Republican who lit 5 million dollars of his own money on fire in 2022 losing to *Michael Bennet* may be talked into lighting another pile of his own money on fire in losing to another Colorado Democrat in 2024. *Ron DeSantis* made a DeSasterous entrance into a now-very-crowded GOP presidential field and seemingly DeStroyed DeServers at Twitter. And we check in on the Denver mayor’s race with just one week to go.
But first, as Christian nationalism goes from a theoretical threat to a really real oh-crap-here-it-is threat, we check in with *Rob Boston*, senior adviser at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, to see what kinda Constitution these conservatives are reading.
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May 22, 2023
Everybody Gets a New Mayor! (feat. Alan Salazar)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, Republicans are losing municipal races across the country as Donald Trump continues to destroy the party, and one of those races is in what at least used to be Colorado’s conservative stronghold. Friend of the pod, Senator *John Hickenlooper*, seems to share our ranking for our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado -- and he has a banger OpEd in the Grand Junction Sentinel this week to prove it. *Scott “There is No" Bottoms*, who is either our 18th or 19th favorite Republican in the Colorado House, gives up the game on GOP obstruction. And someone with a podcast less popular than ours is lying to his audience, himself, or more likely both.
But first...perhaps we could call this his exit interview...*Alan Salazar*, Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor *Michael Hancock* and the godfather of top Democratic Staff in Colorado comes back on the pod to talk all things local government -- including the final days of the race for Denver Mayor.
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May 15, 2023
Legislative Session Wrap Up (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the First Regular Session of the 74th General Assembly has adjourned Sine Die and it was a despicable failure, or a resounding success, or somewhere in between, depending entirely on how much time you spend putting money into *Elon Musk’s* pocket. To wrap up the session in style, *Christy Powell* returns to play "Legislating with Crayons," and we check in on our 6th and 8th favorite members of congress from Colorado to see what in the hell they’re up to (spoiler alert: nothing good).
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May 7, 2023
Sine Die is Nigh (And We Hit 150 Episodes!)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast**...we've reached EPISODE 150!!! Holy crap!!!
*Ahem, Sine Die is upon us, and for those of us who don’t speak latin, that means the 2023 Legislative Session is mercifully coming to an end. With so many outstanding items we ask the question every reporter has asked this week since 1876: "How will they get it all done?”
The Supreme Court of the United States is an ethical disaster, but really only the Justices appointed by Republican Presidents; Heidi Ganahl, the last statewide elected Republican in Colorado (and possibly the worst candidate in state history) may be planning on Unleashing herself onto the state. Again. We take bets on how big her margin of defeat will be next time.
With one month to go in the Denver Mayoral Election, two dudes from Lakewood will discuss how the hell it got like this; our 8th favorite congressperson from Colorado clearly, badly needs attention, and we'll give her a little more! And finally, Tucker Carlson may be off the airwaves, but his inexcusably racist influence on the GOP will remain for a long, long time.
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May 1, 2023
Just Do Your Job! (feat. Andrew Baumann)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, The new chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, *Dave Williams*, is hopefully “not just milking big government” by drawing a taxpayer funded salary at 40 hours a week while also allegedly running the party for 40 hours a week...and this is according to the Republican House Minority Leader. As the scourge of gun violence continues to plague the nation one Republican state Representative says the quiet part out loud -- like really, really loud. A right wing dark money group wins an appeal on a campaign finance case in which they were absolutely, clearly guilty; we ask why bother having laws? And DARK BRANDON RISES to run for re-election. BUT FIRST returning guest and perhaps (perhaps not) returning champion *Andrew Baumann* is back on the pod with a new poll! This one spells doom for our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado.
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Apr 17, 2023
The Politics of Nothing
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, House Republicans continue to filibuster without wanting anything; will they do it for the next 15 days or so? The title of this show, the Get More Smarter Podcast, is intentionally bad grammar (for those of you who have emailed us about it), but someone out there in the world is showing why we can’t even joke about it anymore. While more mass shootings happen every single day in this country, Democrats in the Colorado Legislature have passed more bills to address gun violence prevention. And there's a new poll out about our 8th favorite member of congress from Colorado; Rep. Lauren Boebert is in deep, deep cow dung.
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Apr 7, 2023
The City Cast Denver Cross(back)over
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we complete our crossover event with City Cast Denver. In our last episode, we interviewed *Paul Karolyi *and* Bree Davies* of City Cast Denver about THEIR discussions with 13 of the 16 candidates running for Mayor of Denver. This week, the roles are flipped.
*Jason Bane* joined Bree Davies and friends at City Cast Denver to talk about the outcome of the Denver municipal election and the newest efforts by Democrats to take down Congressperson *Lauren Boebert *in 2024.
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Apr 2, 2023
What (Almost) Every Denver Mayoral Candidate Has to Say (feat. City Cast Denver)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, Colorado House Democrats invoke Rule 14 to stop the 19 Republicans from filibustering a package of gun safety laws while yet another mass shooting unnecessarily takes the lives of more American children. The GOP is the party of insurrection, gun violence, and coddling criminals, and our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado is leading the charge. BUT FIRST, in our efforts to cover the Denver Mayor’s race without covering the Denver Mayor’s race... it’s a crossover episode! We’ve got *Bree Davies* and *Paul Karolyi *from *City Cast Denver* on the show to discuss their efforts to interview all 17 candidates who were at least at some point running for Mayor of that big smoldering crater in the ground to the east of Lakewood.
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Mar 26, 2023
The Colorado GOP Says "We Don't Care" About Gun Violence (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, there have been two shootings in or near East High School in Denver in less than 40 days, and Colorado Republicans are just flat-out saying that they really don't care about your feelings on the subject. This is what happens when the people who think more guns are the answer and the current situation is just fine take full control of the Colorado Republican Party.
In addition to being the party of endless gun death, the GOP is also now the party of...weakening child labor laws? The Affordable Care Act is old enough to be bar-mitzvah’d; we ask if it’s memorized its torah portion yet. Twice impeached former President and current GOP nomination frontrunner *Donald Trump* is about to be arrested and/or indicted for paying hush money to a porn star; after all these years, will the leader of the party of Law and Order finally see some? And the unofficial third host of the Get More Smarter Podcast is back with a new stack of horribles from listening to the state legislature so we don’t have to. *Christy Powell* joins us once again to play our confusing Republican legislative game we call "Legislating With Crayons."
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Mar 19, 2023
All Truth, No Lies (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
In our second episode this week of the* **Get More Smarter Podcast*, Congressman* Joe Neguse* (D-Boulderish) returns for another visit to discuss being named the most effective lawmaker of the last Congress; his role leading the messaging arm of the House Democratic Caucus; and how his job is different now that Democrats are in the minority in the House of Representatives.
Later, we check back on two of our recurring segments, "That's Bull***" and "The Boebert Report," including the news from Rep. *Lauren Boebert *(R-ifle) that she's about to be a 36-year-old grandmother. Colorado Republicans are fleeing the party after the selection of *Dave Williams* as State Party Chair; we'll discuss this as well as why the GOP's insistence on talking about Denver as a crime-infested hellhole is doing them no favors. Also, former gubernatorial candidate *Heidi Ganahl *has a new podcast/lecture series about why you're wrong; how one candidate for Denver Mayor might now be in the driver's seat for t…
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Mar 16, 2023
House Speaker Julie McCluskie Gets More Smarter
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, the Colorado Republican Party has a new chair -- can he possibly be worse than the last one? Colorado has an ongoing gun violence problem, and Democrats in the state legislature are doing something about it. We'll tell you which Republicans have been named the rightiest of them all; and ballots are in the mail for the Denver Mayor’s race, so who better than two dudes who live in Lakewood to break down the final few weeks!
But first, Colorado House Speaker *Julie McCluskie* joins the podcast to discuss her first few months on the job and to preview some upcoming legislation. Speaker McCluskie also gives us an honest response to the news that former State Rep. *Dave Williams* is now the leader of the Colorado Republican Party.
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Feb 27, 2023
The Answer is: Yes!
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, are Colorado Democrats really good, or are Colorado Republicans really bad? We have a one word answer for you. In the worst game of musical chairs ever played in Colorado, who will lead the Colorado GOP into the next era of electoral failure, finger pointing, backstabbing, and utter delusion? We take bets!
Speaking of sore losers, we’ve got another tragic tale of a Colorado Republican trying to save themselves from themselves and, if we had to guess, it’s not looking good. Democrats are bringing bills to a gunfight; how many Republicans will misplace loaded firearms in the Capitol during this latest effort to curb mass shootings? The battle for the U.S. House majority in 2024 runs right through Colorado, but the districts in play will look very different this time around. And finally, anti-Semitism is alive and well in America. Who could possibly be to blame for such a thing?
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Feb 20, 2023
Why Biden and Trump Are Still Tied Together (feat. Eli Stokols)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, you know him as the former political reporter for Fox 31 Denver...or from...the Wall Street Journal...or the Los Angeles Times...POLITICO's White House Correspondent *Eli Stokols* is back on the Get More Smarter Podcast. Stokols talks about the difference in covering the Trump and Biden administrations, and why 2024 could be 2020 all over again. Later in an unusually-long episode, we talk about how the Colorado GOP's scheme to take over the El Paso County Party backfires spectacularly, and why one of Colorado’s biggest political spenders is trying to find a way to save the GOP from itself.
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Feb 13, 2023
Please Stop Yelling at the State of the Union (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, the State of our Union is….WEIRD. *Ian Silverii *reports back from the worst seats in the House Gallery because *Jason Bane* wasn't invited. The great *Christy Powell* joins us with a new game where we try and explain the inexplicable, for prizes (metaphorical ones). Overtly racist pro-claymore mine lobby Rocky Mountain Gun Owners flies its overtly-racist flag. There is still no bottom with Representative *Scott Bottoms*. And our 8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado, *Lauren Boebert*, has some loud thoughts about WHO TURNED OFF MY TWITTER MACHINE???
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Feb 5, 2023
Kyle Clark of "Next With Kyle Clark" is, Uh, Next...
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, it’s Groundhog Day! So we’re re-running last year's episode. Just kidding! With the 2023 Colorado Legislative Session in full swing we ask the question on everybody’s mind, is there no *(Scott) Bottom(s)* to the State House GOP? We have many more occasions to ask the podcast’s favorite question, "What the Buck!?" BUT FIRST, you know him as Colorado’s most (or least) favorite evening news anchor and a man of 1,000 thrift store sport coats: 9News anchor/reporter/producer *Kyle Clark* joins the podcast to talk about how to cover a jam-packed Denver Mayoral race; calling a lie a lie (and a liar a liar); and the disservice that journalists do for a community when they "both sides" a story into oblivion.
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Jan 30, 2023
Why Do Republicans Do Anything? (feat. Tim Miller)
This week on the* Get More Smarter Podcast*, after yet another rash of mass shootings in Colorado and the country, State House Democrats are ready to do something big about it. Did you know almost 1/4th of Colorado Legislators were elected by a few dozen people? We break down the Vacancy Committee influence on Colorado Politics and why such an antidemocratic process is so often used to choose the state’s lawmakers. We talk about some other stuff too, but first, you know him as Colorado’s Favorite Never Trumper: *Tim Miller* from The Bulwark and Rolling Stone joins us to talk Turning Point USA, The Colorado GOP then and now, and his new book, "Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell."
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Jan 21, 2023
How to Go the Full Alan Salazar (feat. Alan Salazar)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts *Jason Bane* and *Ian Silverii *talk with legendary Colorado politico *Alan Salazar* and coin a new term from his vast experience. Currently serving as Chief of Staff to Denver Mayor *Michael Hancock*, Salazar has been a top adviser to Congressmen, Senators, Governors, and even Presidents -- for familiar names such as *Roy Romer*, *Mark Udall*, *John Hickenlooper*, and *Bill Clinton*. We discuss the traits that these successful politicians all have in common (other than hiring Alan Salazar). Later, Jason and Ian also dive into the debt ceiling and try to understand why Colorado Republican lawmakers refused to co-sponsor a resolution honoring Dr. *Martin Luther King, Jr.*
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Jan 16, 2023
Who Sends the Splinters to the People Who Just Retired?
This week on the *Get More Smarter Podcast*, Republicans say they want to make government smaller, but what happens when they blast it into microscopic pieces? Republicans claim they won a slim majority in Congress because they were talking about issues like inflation, crime, and the southern border, so why are the first things they’re doing trying to ban abortion and launch meaningless partisan investigations you’ll only understand if you subscribe to Tucker Carlson’s newsletter? Meanwhile, Colorado Democrats in the State Capitol have gotten to business in the 74th General Assembly, with an agenda that is laser-focused on the issue that are top of mind for voters; state legislative Republicans, unfortunately, have the same problems as their Washington DC counterparts.
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Jan 2, 2023
The Last Episode of 2022 (Even Though It's 2023)
This week on the* Get More Smarter Podcast*, it’s the last episode of 2022 -- you know, the year that brought the biggest Blue Wave Colorado has ever seen! Our soon-to-be-8th favorite member of Congress from Colorado nearly lost her seat; has she learned a damn thing from it? With the retirement of the worst party chair to ever lead the Colorado GOP now a sure thing, who is crazy, dumb, or unlucky enough to lead the red team into a Presidential Election cycle? The one place where Colorado Republicans HAVE seen a modicum of electoral success is a total disaster; will they find a way to lose power there too? *Donald Trump* is still around, but how "dead" is Trumpism on a scale of 1-8 Freddy Krugers? And finally, we revisit an old Colorado story to try and process the *George Santos* shitshow.
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Dec 16, 2022
The End of the End? (feat. Christy Powell and Alan Franklin)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, *Ian Silverii* is on vacation, so the other guy (*Jason Bane*) found two different people who were willing to talk to him about politics. Settle in for an entertaining discussion with Jason and returning guests *Christy Powell* and *Alan Franklin* for a deep, deep, deep dive into the big electoral questions of 2022 and what Colorado's political future looks like from here.
We talk about how Republicans completely hosed themselves in 2022; whether or not the Colorado GOP is even salvageable; and what Democrats need to be careful about with their new super-duper majorities in Colorado. We also touch on some news about exporting QAnon and whether failed Georgia Republican Senate candidate *Herschel Walker *was tanking all along.
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Dec 4, 2022
The GOP Infinity War, Sans Endgame (feat. Rep. Jason Crow)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Congressman *Jason Crow* returns to discuss Election Day jitters; his first time as a member of the minority party in Congress; and why an Assault Weapons Ban is good policy. Later, we discuss the "Infinity War" within the Colorado Republican Party and how sore losers in the GOP -- throughout the country -- keep whining about being on the opposite side of the majority of Americans when it comes to common sense ideas and governing in general.
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Nov 23, 2022
Rep-Elect Brittany Pettersen Gets More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Congresswoman-elect *Brittany Pettersen* joins her husband and podcast host* Ian Silverii* (and *Jason Bane*) to talk about traveling to Washington D.C. for a whirlwind week of orientation for newly-elected members of Congress. We'll take you behind the scenes for a look at everything involved in starting a new job at the United States Capitol.
Later, we discuss another mass shooting in Colorado -- this time at "Club Q" in Colorado Springs -- and how lawmakers need to do more to ensure that local elected officials aren't ignoring tools that are intended to prevent such a tragedy. We'll also talk about Rep. *Lauren Boebert's* narrow re-election in CO-03; leadership elections at the State Capitol; and *Donald Trump's* very sad announcement of another Presidential campaign.
Happy Thanksgiving! We're particularly grateful for all of our listeners.
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Nov 11, 2022
The Get More Smarter Post-Election Extravaganza
This week on The Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts *Jason Bane *and *Ian Silverii *sit down with *Seth Masket*, Director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver, to break down the 2022 election results in Colorado and the massive Bluenami that swept through our state.
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Nov 3, 2022
Get More Smarter Before Election Day!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we make our final prognostications of the 2022 election cycle! We also talk with pollster-extraordinaire *Andrew Baumann* of Global Strategy Group so that you'll know what to watch out for -- both nationally and in Colorado -- as election results start trickling in on Tuesday. Your friends will be really amazed at how smart you are when you tell them what it means when the first batch of results are reported in [checks notes] eastern Indiana.
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Oct 31, 2022
State Sen. Kevin Priola Gets More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2022 election is nearly here! Get that ballot off your table and into a dropbox! There have been A LOT of debates this cycle, and that’s probably a good thing for democracy; we'll talk about some of them. Republican gubernatorial candidate *Heidi Ganahl*, or someone on her campaign, gets outed as the brains behind one of the most vile and racist twitter accounts in #copolitics; with Election Day around the corner, Ganahl just lets her freak flag fly. The 2020 election was not riddled with fraud, and yet, a large portion of the GOP still believes it -- will they accept the results of an election they'll probably lose? The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial board decides to "well, actually" Adolf Hitler and the Nazis; and we have a new segment that is both informative and (we hope) entertaining. But first...Democratic State Senator Kevin Priola joins us to talk about switching parties from red to blue, what issues he’ll break with his ne…
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Oct 23, 2022
The Blue Wave Cometh in Colorado (feat. Andrew Baumann)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Election Day is less than 3 weeks away! Will it be a red ripple, a blue wave, a green tsunami, or another color and a different meteorological event? Our guest, *Andrew Baumann *of Global Strategy Group, takes us through the latest "Mountaineer" polling for the answers. Later, the Colorado Springs Gazette only endorses Republicans, but their news team does great journalism, so how should we think about this news outlet? There are 11 statewide initiatives and many, many more local questions on this year’s ballot, we’ll talk about…some of them. And Colorado Republicans seem to think that you must be winning if your opponent is running a real campaign but you are not; we make an effort to understand this bizarre logic.
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Oct 17, 2022
What Time is It? Voting Time! (feat. Alec Garnett)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, ballots drop THIS WEEK, so get your voting dobbers ready! We’ll take you through all the latest news, including the fact that Ganahl’s Ghouls just will not stop talking about furries (Heidi Ganahl's campaign won't stop talking about a LOT of things -- we'll get to that, too). Newly minted Democratic Senator *Kevin Priola* will not face a recall until he represents his new constituents after redistricting, which is honestly the only logical outcome from this stupid, doomed, expensive, quixotic adventure the GOP tried to go on in the middle of an election they apparently have no interest in. But first, we talk again with Colorado Speaker of the House* Alec Garnett *about the next group of House leaders and his predictions for Election Day.
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Oct 10, 2022
Get Even More Weiserer (feat. AG Phil Weiser)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Furry Fury continues, and it’s no one’s fault but the person who keeps bringing it up, GOP gubernatorial candidate *Heidi Ganahl*. With about 4 weeks left until election day and less than 2 weeks before ballots go out, we check in on the big races in Colorado so you don’t have to. Colorado is contributing plenty of candidates to the nationwide list of election denying Republicans running for office, but the good news is the ones from here will probably lose. There is still crime in Aurora despite the city being run by Republicans; how can that possibly be!?!?! And we get another legendary rant from the One and Only *Christy Powell.*
But first, Colorado Attorney General *Phil Weiser* returns to the show to update us on his re-election campaign, law enforcement issues in Colorado, and bracing yourself for another potentially devastating Supreme Court docket.
*We can’t believe this, either, but we’re about to hit 50,000 downloads…
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Oct 3, 2022
Crazier Than a Bag of Squirrels
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a certain Republican candidate for Colorado Governor is pilled to the gills, or the ears, or the claws. The self-described “pro life” candidate for US Senate who is described by other people as “pro choice” not only voted for an abortion ban that lost by 20 points...he actually signed the petition to get it on the ballot. The GOP candidate for Attorney General may have waved off the only group in the country willing to help him win his election; some candidates choose not to run TV ads, which is actually a really big mistake; Republicans are starting to freak out about what happens if they win the US House in 2022 (Our advice? Stop trying to win the House in 2022); and we try out a new game, where there are no winners and everyone is a loser.
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Sep 25, 2022
Nobody Has Anything Good to Say (Except Us)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, *Joe O’D’OH*! really boxes himself in on an issue it’s clear he didn’t ever think about once before becoming a politician; he has now taken every side known to man, and he’s using his own family members as human political shields. *Heidi Ganahl* is still trying to win the primary she already somehow won, and doesn’t seem to understand anything about the job she’s trying to get elected to; Colorado Congressional races get the national spotlight, and it’s bad news for the first dude in the phone book; we’ve got some interesting cross-party endorsements and one of the “normal” GOP candidates has to explain why all of these election deniers keep showing up to take photos with her; *Lauren Boebert* and *Ken Buck* are embarrassments to Colorado, and *Doug Lamborn* probably is, too; and at least *Ron DeSantis* is not our governor.
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Sep 20, 2022
Governor Jared Polis Gets More Smarter
This week on a special episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast, we're joined once again by Gov. Jared Polis, the 43rd Governor of the Great State of Colorado. We talk the 2022 campaign, truth in advertising, executing an agenda during COVID, saving people money, and the best cut of meat of a cow: The brisket.
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Sep 12, 2022
Asshats in Key States
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republican Senate candidate *Joe O’Dea* appoints himself the arbiter of the balance of women’s rights; finally, a man who is brave enough and strong enough to tell women what rights they can and cannot have! The battles for Colorado’s competitive congressional seats are heating up, and Ian personally doesn’t have any stake in the outcome whatsoever. We’ve got another fundraising quarter in the books for statewide contests, and it appears only one side of the aisle knows there’s a campaign going on. There's also no indication that significant national Republican money is coming to Colorado because the GOP needs to help a bunch of other asshats in key states. A local MAGA millionaire says he'll light a huge bucket of money on fire because he doesn’t like *Jared Polis*, or something. The *Kevin Priola* recall clock is ticking, and you'll never believe which day is their deadline to submit signatures. Oh, and the race is on for Denve…
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Sep 5, 2022
Dark Brandon Suits Up for a MAGA Smackdown (feat. Charles Ashby)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, mild-mannered *President Biden* suits up as *Dark Brandon* to bring the ruckus, because enough is enough and it’s time to fight back. Self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives don’t want to pay public school teachers one more dime, but they’re fine setting $200 thousand dollars on fire to recall a State Senator because he left their broken, garbage party. Republican State Senator *Dennis Hisey* seems to have some issues remembering exactly where he lives, because he keeps changing his voter registration. That sound you hear isn’t the Colorado Republican Party scratching at the floorboards, it’s two of their top candidates erasing their positions on abortion from their websites. With Election Day just two months away, we tell you which of the five major statewide races concern us the most (or just not the least). And *Charles Ashby*, political reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, returns once more to update us on the continuing…
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Aug 28, 2022
Come for the Christian Nationalism; Stay for the White Grievance (feat. Dr. Anand Sohkey)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Colorado Senate Democrats gain a seat without an election, thanks to Sen. Kevin Priola; our 7th favorite member of Congress from Colorado adds another Democrat to her list of people she wants to “IMEACH"; Republican candidates like Joe O'Dea and Heidi Ganahl keep running in the wrong election (psst...the Primary is over); and we interview University of Colorado professor Dr. *Anand Sohkey *about his upcoming book on Christian Nationalism and why it’s suddenly so pervasive in our politics.
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Aug 21, 2022
Michael Bennet and Jon Ossoff Get More Smarter
This week on a special episode of The Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii are joined by not one, but TWO United States Senators! Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet stop by to chat about the 2022 election and the Inflation Reduction Act, including some of the lesser-known but equally-important parts of the IRA.
Senator Bennet also discusses how he helped to make sure that drought assistance was included in the IRA for Colorado; his celebratory visit to Sen. Joe Manchin's West Virginia boat; his ongoing bet with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar; and how he and other Democratic Senators actually talk about #HorseSushi.
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Aug 14, 2022
Dark Brandon Rises for Horse Sushi
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Fox 31 livestreams a Colorado Republican Party press conference on the anniversary of last year’s Gas Station Disaster, and it somehow goes just about as poorly as that one. DARK BRANDON RISES and right-wing shills are losing their minds over Joe Biden looking like a badass, and having perhaps the most productive week in office of any president in history. The FBI raids Mar-a-Lago -- we’ll find out what’s in Trump’s safe, and if you guess, you get a prize! A new poll in Colorado’s most competitive congressional district show a dead heat, as long as the district stays where it is and Weld county doesn’t secede and join Wyoming between now and election day.
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Aug 9, 2022
SPECIAL: John "Captain Planet" Hickenlooper
He’s a geologist, he’s a brewer, he’s a mayor, he’s a governor, and he’s the dude who cut the biggest deal on climate policy in the history of the country. Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper joins us for a special episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast so that you can get all the details of the historic Inflation Reduction Act straight from the source!
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Aug 7, 2022
Two Statewide Republicans May Have Already Lost
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, sure abortion is popular in Kansas, but how will it play in the heartland? It’s not November, but GOP candidate for Attorney General John Kellner already lost his race, and as a matter of fact Lang Sias probably did, too. Meanwhile, the top of the ticket is going nearly as poorly as the Ganahl campaign utterly implodes and the O’Dea campaign is doing absolutely everything they can to say as little as possible; the rest of the GOP ticket sucks too, and the national congressional generic ballot average has pulled to EVEN for the first time since last November. You can pack up your floaties because the 2022 red wave ain’t coming.
*That Kansas joke is brought to you by friend of the show, Professor Seth Masket.
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Jul 31, 2022
Undefeated Against Unicorns
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Joe O’Dea is a unicorn! So was Darryl Glenn! We dive deep into Colorado election law to determine if mythical creatures meet the qualifications to run for U.S. Senate. Losing losers who lost their primaries are raising money for a recount that will show that they are in fact losing losers who lost their primaries, again, but not before wasting a whole lot of time and money proving what losing losers they are. As election denial is getting more expensive it’s also getting lazier as fake news websites try to peddle election conspiracy theories for races that were not even close. Ken Buck sucks and the state of Colorado should have revoked his law license back in 2020; Colorado media outlets finally catch up with the Get More Smarter Podcast to ask Heidi Ganahl how she plans on paying for her $9 billion income tax cut; and hateful bigots are trying to impose their religious values on an entire country whose main founding document makes it ext…
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Jul 24, 2022
The World's Smallest Gun (feat. Treasurer Dave Young)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Heidi Ganahl picks a running mate, again, and somehow it goes worse than the time where she picked a running mate who didn’t end up being the running mate; a group of people calling themselves Democrats for Heidi appear out of nowhere and at least one of them is a Republican who ran for state senate like two years ago and is still a registered Republican; Mitch McConnell says Joe O’Dea is the key to getting him back in the majority in the US Senate, and for once we believe him; and our guest is Colorado State Treasurer Dave Young, who tells us what he does all day and the sort of priceless antiquities sitting inside a big vault near his office.
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Jul 15, 2022
Republicans Move On After Weird Primaries in Colorado
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Heidi Gah…Gah…Gah…not going to win the Governor’s race as she bungles yet another campaign layup; the Colorado Republican Party tries to convince voters not to vote for Jared Polis by spending quite a lot of time publishing his many accomplishments; GOP US Senate Nominee Joe O’Dea gets mad when people repeat the things he says, which is not how messaging is supposed to work; and our seventh favorite Colorado congressional representative’s gun-themed restaurant, Shooter’s Grill, finally stops trying to pretend that people want to eat there.
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Jul 1, 2022
Piecing Through the Primary Election (feat. Seth Masket)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...we were wrong! Turns out neither Jason nor I are infallible, and if you are, good for you! We unpack this week’s somewhat surprising Primary Election outcomes with our special guest, University of Denver Professor Seth Masket, who directs the Center for American Politics. We talk about what happened, why, and how the Primary might affect the General Election in November.
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Jun 22, 2022
Predicting the Primary Election (feat. Armin Thomas)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...with one week left to go in the primaries, Colorado Republican Candidates are finally on the air with their own ads after leaving the entire environment open for months. Will it change the outcome of any of the races? We'll tell you. Also...The Denver Post Editorial Board comes right out and says it: John Eastman is proof that the Bruce Benson Center at the University of Colorado has no reason to exist. And our guest today is Armin Thomas of Split Ticket; we let the professional prognosticator tell us what’s going to happen next week, and ask him about his favorite Colorado district ever.
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Jun 15, 2022
Heidi Ganahl Won't Let Greg Lopez Lose
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the GOP is freaking out about a tactic they’ve used and we’ve used and everyone has used before, mostly because they do not want to talk about their terrible ideas that no one agrees with. We pre-preview the newest edition of the Rocky Mountaineer, and it’s exactly what we thought it would be; Colorado plays an oversize role in all American politics, and that is unfortunately the case with the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on January 6; Lauren Boebert is a wreck, and this time we’re talking about an ATV; Jason and I LARP an interview with Tina Peters and can’t make it make any more sense; and Ken Buck apparently clears the weeds from his lawn with Javelin missiles.
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Jun 3, 2022
It's. The. Guns. (feat. Rep. Tom Sullivan)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...there have been 213 mass shootings so far in 2022. What are we even doing anymore? Our 6th and 7th favorite congresspeople from Colorado continue to embarrass themselves (and all of us) on a daily basis; primary ballots drop next week; and we predict the election results so you don’t have to. But first, our guest this week is state representative Tom Sullivan, who is Colorado’s leading gun violence prevention expert and advocate. We talk gun policy, his personal story, and his campaign for the new Senate District 27.
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May 23, 2022
Does This Look Like it Could Be Weird? (feat. Alec Garnett)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the violent white replacement conspiracy theory embraced by many Republican politicians spurred yet another mass shooting in a community of color; we ask why on earth some Colorado Republicans have courted and accepted endorsements from some of the conspiracy’s biggest boosters. Our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado spent the week blaming Joe Biden for the baby formula shortage and then became one of 9 monsters to vote against helping low income families get it because she’s a lying, callous monster who exists solely to embarrass the good people of Colorado’s third congressional district. The three Colorado Republicans vying for the chance to lose to Jena Griswold this November got together for a debate, and Jason listened to the whole thing so you don’t have to. Greg Lopez, the top-line Republican candidate for governor, has a plan to help Republicans finally win in Colorado, which is essentially to make sure their votes count…
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May 12, 2022
Falling on Ridiculously Dull Swords
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, HAPPY SINE DIE to everyone except for the Colorado House Republicans who, despite having the smallest legislative minority in memory, tried to hold the entire legislature hostage until…well they don’t know either. We’ll talk about the bills that have passed so far this session, and a few that might turn into a pumpkin when the clock strikes midnight (which it did). Joe O’Dea is dancing, yeah; our least favorite coup-plotting disgraced-right-wing-professorial-insurrectionist from Colorado is in deep, deep doo-doo; and our 64th favorite county clerk has been barred from overseeing the election her current office is in charge of while she maintains her frontrunner status in the GOP primary to oversee every election in Colorado.
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May 6, 2022
The One With the Epic Rant About Abortion Rights (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the Colorado legislature protected abortion rights RIGHT BEFORE a leaked memo from the Supreme Court shows they’re poised to overturn Roe v. Wade...and Colorado Republicans remain on the wrong side of this issue that they were POSITIVE would not be important this cycle (whoopsie!). Later, Christy Powell returns to chat campaign finance numbers for statewide offices and provide an absolutely epic rant on abortion rights that you don't want to miss (jump ahead to the 22:45 mark for that, and bring your earmuffs).
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Apr 21, 2022
Get Off the People's Lawn! (feat. Christy Powell)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Christy Powell Strikes Back! She was such a big hit with our listeners that we wanted to bring her back to talk campaign finance (and Ian is not at all worried that she’s going to permanently replace him because she’s smarter, funnier AND taller). Christy reads us campaign finance reports in a French accent...Colorado Republicans are overdosing on their own kool-aid, and blaming Democrats for that, too...the GOP establishment is trying to engineer a ballot full of boring, unelectable candidates instead of a ballot full of insane, unelectable candidates -- and they're doing a bad job! And Lori Saine brags about something that makes no sense whatsoever!
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Apr 13, 2022
For a Better Circus, Add More Clowns
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’re going to keep things simple. The Colorado Republican Party held its state assembly last weekend, and it was an incredible disaster. There are not enough words to adequately describe this dumpster fire, but we’re going to try with the help of guest host Christy Powell!
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Apr 7, 2022
Whose Demon Is It Anyway? (feat. Sen. Julie Gonzales and Scott Wasserman)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, results from some of the Republican assemblies last week tell us what we already know, the Colorado GOP is screwed. Also, we preview the state assembly with contests for Governor, US Senate, and Secretary of State. A Republican candidate for Congress claims basic healthcare is human sacrifice to the demon lord Ba’al, and we’re not remotely making this up. We don’t say Gay-nahl as the presumptive runner-up for the GOP nomination for governor gets trapped by a pilled radio host, we see if the voter fraud lie rally brought to you by My Pillow and the Tina Peters Legal Defense Grift gets blown away by 25 mile per hour winds, and our interview with returning friend of the pod State Senator Julie Gonzales of Denver and Scott Wasserman, President of the Bell Policy center - we talk housing affordability and ballot initiative madness. You don’t want to miss this interview.
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Apr 4, 2022
A Mayor in Her Free Time (feat. Dusti Gurule)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, not to be outdone by the US Senate GOP Primary Field, the Republican candidates for the brand-new congressional district 8 say insane things, in public, and it’s all been recorded! We ask how on earth any of these people plan to win a general election in a competitive district. Heidi Ganahl acolyte, former “visiting scholar in conservative thought” for the “Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization” and disgraced insurrectionist John Eastman may be the thing that finally brings Trump down after all of the crimes he committed in the wide open; our seventh-favorite member of congress from Colorado takes credit for things she voted against because she thinks her voters are as stupid as she is; We Told You So about the Aurora City Council; and we interview Dusti Gurule, executive director of COLOR, fresh off an enormous victory for abortion rights as the Reproductive Health Equity Act makes its way to Governor Polis’…
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Mar 27, 2022
The GOP Caucus Conundrum (feat. Rep. Joe Neguse)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, incumbency ain’t what it used to be, especially for the Colorado GOP. We discuss how not one but *both* state GOP caucus leaders got told by their base that they’re just not crazy enough to be a republican state legislator. Meanwhile, the "Big Lie" continues to haunt the red team here in the Centennial State; we take another look into our very cloudy crystal ball and tell you who is going to win so you don’t have to even bother voting; and Colorado’s 2nd district Congressman Joe Neguse joins us to talk about parks, how Colorado can help Ukrainian refugees, and his bill to designate the Amache National Historic Site as the newest national park!
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Mar 21, 2022
The Worst Campaigns This Century (feat. Charles Ashby)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we evaluate the worst campaigns we’ve ever seen in Colorado and ask if the current presumptive GOP gubernatorial runner-up’s campaign makes the list, YET ANOTHER State Representative drops a loaded firearm in the state capitol after rushing to committee, we ask why the hell this keeps happening, Colorado House Minority Leader Hugh McKean makes the ballot via petition and then had yet another physical altercation with a member of his own caucus, so things are still going great for House Republicans and later, Charles Ashby from the grand junction daily sentinel returns once again to give us an update on the Tina Peters indictment scandal and why one particular creature comfort is missing from the Mesa County Jail.
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Mar 15, 2022
The Get More Smarter Podcast: Episode 100!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we made it into triple digits! Meanwhile, gas prices are up, so are profits for Big Oil. Could these things possibly be related? We ask Oak Creek Colorado bar owner, AAA Colorado Spokesperson, and enormous Deadhead Skyler McKinley what’s driving the increase in gas prices, and it ain’t Joe Biden. The Colorado Governor’s race gets sillier as presumptive nominee Heidi Ganahl currently trails one of her primary contenders who believes among other things that we should let wolves murder people for being homeless, we review some new polling courtesy of ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group’s Rocky Mountaineer with returning guest Andrew Baumann, and we revisit the doomed recall of Governor Polis and last episode’s guest Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
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Mar 1, 2022
SOS Jena Griswold Gets More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, WAR, what is it good for? Showing truly how deranged the GOP has become as they cheer Putin and attack Biden on the eve of Russia invading a sovereign nation, apparently. Colorado Republicans jump the Crimesharknado like the Fonz but with less class and more shrill opportunism, they also seem to have an issue with their own House and Senate minority leaders as they plot to try and take the legislature in 2022, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott begs the question: Are Republicans the party of Bad ideas, or are they the party of no ideas? BUT FIRST we interview Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, defender of democracy, bane of conspiracy theorists, and the best PR agent for Colorado’s amazing system of voting.
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Feb 21, 2022
Holy Crap She's Really Going to Do It
*This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Jason is almost eerily psychic because our 64th favorite County Clerk in Colorado, Tina Peters, is **actually running for secretary of state!!! **The Crimesharknado narrative takes another hit as the presumptive GOP nominee for governor talks about all the alerts she gets on her Nextdoor app, The now-at-least-four-time-anti-abortion-losers are coming back for a fifth helping of “no thank you” from Colorado voters as another preposterous ballot initiative gets filed, and Douglas County Conservatives continue their recent ritual of doxxing people they perceive as their political enemies, and that’s really irresponsible and dangerous!*
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Feb 15, 2022
The Republican Senate Race is Straight Bananas
*This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans are still trying to figure out how to talk about the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th 2021 that was sparked by Donald Trump and literally carried out by thousands of his supporters wearing his name all over their clothes; Colorado’s Most Famous Political Criminal Kicks gets a new contender from our 64th favorite Colorado County Clerk, Tina Peters; our soon to be 8th favorite congressperson from Colorado once again demonstrates that those who thump the Constitution understand it the very least. Douglas County Republicans haven’t learned the lessons Jefferson County Republicans learned about how school boards work, and they’re gonna pay for it, and finally we review last week’s GOP US Senate debate in Fort Lupton and introduce you to our absolute most favorite candidate for any office ever, Daniel Hendricks.*
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Feb 1, 2022
2022 Legislative Preview (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
Jinx! This week we talk the 2022 Colorado legislative session with Speaker Alec Garnett. Subjects include (but are not limited to):
* Term limits (3:59)
* Working alongside insurrectionists (6:46)
* Voting for paragraph-long amendments in support of Tina Peters (without reading them) (11:47)
* Saving people money (13:35)
* The state budget (16:03)
* Getting the Avs and Nugs back on TV (20:47)
* Enshrining abortion rights (23:58)
* Republicans jinxing themselves (27:10)
* What's next for Speaker Alec Garnett? (31:36)
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Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Dec 22, 2021
Quick-Hits to End a Long Year
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, an all-quick-hits episode! For our last show of 2021 we’re trying something new, a wide range of topics having missed our very, very obvious opportunity to make the 2022 predictions episode our last one of the year. Also we want to give a special shoutout to that conservative tracker who drew the short straw and has to listen to this and transcribe it every week, we feel you buddy. So let’s get into it!
Topics include
* Kill the Filibuster? (1:03)
* CO-08 (4:35)
* Attorney General Race (8:27)
* The Boebert Report (9:50)
* Doug Lamborn! (14:41)
* GOP Candidate for Governor Danielle Neuschwanger's Homophobia (19:30)
* Finding Cory (21:56)
* Republican Governors Taking Credit for Stuff They Didn't Do (23:22)
* Two-Face Heidi Ganahl (24:06)
* Local Government Collective Bargaining (26:06)
* El Paso GOP Nonsense (28:11)
* Joe Oltman is Dangerous (29:39)
* Lara Trump Misremembers January 6th (33:40)
* Happy Holidays…
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Dec 13, 2021
2022 Colorado Election Preview
This week, we predict the future so you don’t have to! And yes, we knew you were going to say that. Lauren Boebert is a bigot and the Colorado Republican Party are a bunch of little cowards, but what else is new?
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Special thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.
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Dec 6, 2021
Boebert, Somehow, Found a New Low (ft. Sara Loflin)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the worst statewide campaign we’ve possibly ever seen in Colorado somehow got worse. The saga of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, Tina Peters continues to get even weirder, bringing in our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado who is a racist bigot, and some Colorado Republicans want you to think it’s sexist to point that out. Finally, we interview Sara Loflin, the new Executive Director of ProgressNow Colorado. We ask why she continues to make Ethan produce this podcast, thank her for her generosity, and apologize for all the things Ian screwed up that she now has to clean up.
Follow Sara on Twitter: @SaraLoflin
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Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Nov 22, 2021
What the Hell Is Going on in Mesa County? (ft. Charles Ashby)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a whole episode dedicated to Mesa County Madness! We welcome Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Reporter Charles Ashby back to the show who gives us the definitive rundown of the continuing scandal surrounding Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and what role Lauren Boebert’s former campaign manager has in it all.
There are too many wild stories to link in this episode description, but you can scroll through Charles' recent articles here: https://www.gjsentinel.com/users/profile/charles%20ashby/
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Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Nov 15, 2021
Infrastructure Week for Our Weak Infrastructure (ft. Commissioner Chaz Tedesco)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s infrastructure week! The Colorado Republican party has already surrendered the Governor’s race in 2022 in Colorado, but who’s going to be able to run the biggest grift on them in the meantime? A bald white dude with glasses tells Democrats how to win elections, and we're not talking about Ian. Friend of the show Tina Peters violates the first rule of politics by digging to the center of the earth with the world’s most invincible shovel. And we interview Chaz Tedesco, Adams County Commissioner and candidate for the 8th Congressional District. We ask him what it might be like to be the first Chaz elected to congress, probably.
Learn more about Commissioner Chaz Tedesco:
* Campaign Site: https://www.tedescoforcongress.com/
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/chazforcongress
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tedescoforcongress
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Nov 5, 2021
Conspiracy Candidates (ft. Erik Maulbetsch)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, election results, polls, conspiracy theories, Congressional InSAINEity, lots to talk about and not a ton of time to talk about it in AND we interview with Erik Maulbetch, political reporter for the Colorado Times Recorder, about the complete and total red-pilling of the Colorado Republican Party.
Colorado Republican Statehouse Candidate Promotes Numerous Conspiracy Theories (Colorado Times Recorder, 10/29/21)
Read the latest edition of The Rocky Mountaineer, a quarterly poll from ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group.
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Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Special thanks to Heather Hukari for editing assistance this week.
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Oct 19, 2021
Representative Doctor Yadira Caraveo Gets More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, MAP MADNESS continues, we’ll talk about who’s most mad about it.
The GOP Clown Car of the US Senate Primary gets clownier, but are these, like, fun happy birthday clowns or terrifying knife-weilding transform into giant monster spider clowns?
Presumptive GOP...candidate for Governor, Heidi Ganahl, somehow finds a way to have another bad week in her doomed gubernatorial campaign. We discuss why we haven’t been asked to appear on her podcast yet.
Our maybe-soon-to-be eighth favorite congressperson from Colorado finds a way to get boo’d at a celebration of a genocidal maniac and we test the water in Mesa county because something absolutely terrible is happening there and we cannot figure out what.
BUT FIRST, we interview State Representative, Doctor Yadira Caraveo, Democratic candidate for what we believe is at least a reasonable approximation of Colorado’s new congressional district. We talk to her about her campaign and ask for unsoli…
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Oct 8, 2021
BONUS: City Cast Denver Takes Us to Casa Bonita
This week, we're doing a feed-swap with our friends over at City Cast Denver. They are Denver's only daily news podcast! We love listening every day and reading their newsletter. Subscribe to them and Get More Smarter™️ about Denver every morning.
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Here's their episode description:
It’s official: Trey Parker and Matt Stone have purchased Casa Bonita. So, now what? Will the Lakewood landmark stay the same, or become a fully South Park-themed eatertainment destination? While the iconic restaurant’s future hangs in the balance, we wanted to know: What really makes Casa Bonita fun? Host Bree Davies and Producer Paul Karolyi took an official tour of the still-closed-for-dining immersive eatery with David Thomas, the “Professor of Fun.” David explains why Casa Bonita is more than just a theme restaurant — it’s an architecturally designed masterpiece that invites play, stirs imagination, and ensures that all who visit will be transported to anothe…
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Oct 7, 2021
Map Madness! (ft. Evan Wyloge)
This week, our favorite Colorado insurrectionist joins the US Senate Republican Primary and we're taking bets on how badly this ruins GOP chances to beat Michael Bennet in 2022. Our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado makes us ask, once again, “What the hell is wrong with our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado?” The Colorado Republican Party doesn’t know the first rule of fight club, so the break the hell out of it. We have another edition of MAP MADNESS, where we discuss the brand-new redistricting and reapportionment process in Colorado AND we interview Evan Wyloge, reporter for the various Gazettes and ColoradoPolitics.com who has had the distinct pleasure of covering this public-political-cartography process not once, but twice!
Follow Evan on Twitter: @EvanWyloge
Some of Evan's redistricting articles mentioned in the interview
- Coordinated persuasion efforts emerge in Colorado redistricting commissions’ public comments (9/20/21)
- Challenge to congressional…
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Sep 24, 2021
Operation Naptime: Tina Peters Returns
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the honest truth is that the entire Colorado Republican/conservative universe is in absolute tatters, but today we’ll focus on the disastrous launch of Heidi Ganahl’s campaign for Governor; insane conspiracy theories continue to not only influence but entirely permeate the GOP establishment in Colorado; Colorado Republicans seem to be having one hell of a time tricking anyone into running for statewide office in 2022; the Q-adjacent pillow-enthusiast, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, returns to Colorado, and is not yet in handcuffs for some unknown reason; and, besides the people we just named, Coloradans are quite enthusiastic and unified in their support for the safe vaccines and effective masks that can finally get us out of this goddamn pandemic if only the small minority of anti-everything death cultists would just let us.
Links
* Republican Heidi Ganahl Announces Candidacy For Governor (CBS4 Denver, 9/14/21)
* INTERVIEW: As she e…
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Sep 17, 2021
Heidi Ga-Not-Gonna-Be-Governor Trips Into the Race
The Colorado Governor’s race has gone to the doggy day care: we interview a dog to find out what this all means. We have questions for anyone running for office in 2022 and so should you; we’ve been asking you all to vax that ass up for weeks now, and now President Biden is requiring you to do so; map madness continues with another round of staff maps from the congressional and legislative redistricting commissions; on top of being generally awful, Lauren Boebert is just, well, weird; the Mesa County Clerk Crime family is at it again, who’s turning themselves in this week?; and those death panels Sarah Palin warned us about back in 2008? Well, they’re real now, and they’re in Idaho.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Sep 7, 2021
Come Home Tina Peters!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast,
* Our main Colorado podcast competition and known logo thieves probably break campaign finance laws (or most certainly will);
* Colorado’s 8th congressional district doesn’t yet exist, but a solid Democratic candidate for it certainly does;
* Embattled Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is still on the lam, but she popped up to talk to MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell (with whom she most certainly is not having a torrid love affair);
* Lauren Boebert as crooked as she is shady, and she’s very, very bad at hiding it;
* Ken Buck still sucks, but not as bad as...
* The totally-not-Republican-redistricting-squad-who-are-entirely-made-up-of-washed-up-Republicans-pretending-not-to-be-Republicans;
* Speaking of Republican stupidity, they’re trying to disenfranchise the majority of Colorado voters because they’re not out of power enough.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Brea…
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Aug 28, 2021
Boebert's Big Bogus Bonus Bribe
This week, Donald Trump has resumed his rightful place back in the White House...just kidding, that didn’t happen. The Colorado GOP has the worst August on record: we take bets on how much worse it can get in the last week! The Republican Mesa County Clerk and Recorder is in hiding with the MyPillow guy after leaking confidential election security information to QAnon people and Lauren Boebert has about 15 enormous problems she didn’t have last week. We read you the internet, and we talk about Ian's personal favorite subject: legislative cartography!
Stuff We Tweeted
* Ian on the CO GOP's terrible week: https://twitter.com/iansilverii/status/1428794521257709568
* Jason on mysterious chickens: https://twitter.com/jason_bane/status/1428362161093447680
* Ethan's hot Jeopardy! takes: https://twitter.com/EthanBlack/status/1428735818751909888
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Aug 15, 2021
Mesa County Missteps (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, both conspiracies and conspiracy-theorists are getting a lot dumber and a lot scarier, and for some reason, lots of Colorado right-wingers are knee deep in the crazy.
In a very related note, the Colorado Republican Party just cannot seem to get their poop in a group, adding to the list of infamous Colorado politics fails this week with an impressively off-key press conference, the first somewhat-legit challenger to Michael Bennet arrives, we discuss why the entire campaign will be about skinny little swords, fancy horses, and the Iraq war (if he’s actually nominated).
But first, we interview The Get More Smarter Podcast’s official member of congress, Ed Perlmutter. He tells us all the good things he’s bringing home for us from DC, and all of the no-things his Republican colleagues are bringing home to their districts. *
*Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Intern: Taleen Sample
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Aug 1, 2021
Choose the Side Without Neo-Nazis
This week, national Republicans continue to attempt to warp the reality of the deadly attack on the capitol on January 6th by Trump supporters to somehow blame Nancy Pelosi; we determine if they’re the worst people on the planet, or in the galaxy; we are very mad about the fact that we’ll all have to start wearing masks everywhere again because a bunch of whiny crybabies are scared of needles like a bunch of third graders and pretend like they can’t breathe with a tiny piece of cloth over their dumb faces; we check in with the person who wins Worst Coloradan of the Year, every year, who also happens to be our 7th favorite congressperson from our great state; and we read you things we posted on the internet. Also, BEAVERS!
* *A dry California creek bed looked like a wildfire risk. Then the beavers went to work** *(The Sacramento Bee, 7/2/21)
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Intern: Taleen Sample
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Jul 20, 2021
All-Star Alternate Universes
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we have an intern and so can you! Ian dusts off his old metaphysics and epistemology textbooks from college and we dive deep into the very nature of reality. Former Colorado Christian University adjunct instructor and one-time Rudy Guilliani seatmate, Jenna Ellis, is in the news again, and we discuss why she shouldn’t be. We pay a visit to our 6th and 7th favorite congressional representatives from Colorado and realize that perhaps we do live in alternate universes after all.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jul 13, 2021
Therapy's Cheaper Than Polling (ft. Andrew Baumann)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Rocky Mountaineer is back! We dig into the latest poll from Global Strategy Group and ProgressNow Colorado to see how much Democrats in the legislature overreached this session, and how much the voters really really liked it. The failed attempt by right-wing goons to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a violent insurrection turns six-months old this week and we discuss the Russian dolls of alternative reality Republicans have put themselves in since then. We have some preliminary redistricting and reapportionment maps, and we discuss why where the lines are right now almost certainly will not matter to the seats actually being campaigned in in 2022. And we read you the internet like we’re your parents and talk about some horrible things Lauren Boebert said! But first, we interview Andrew Baumann, an at-best-mediocre poker player and the senior vice president at Global Strategy Group, and more importantly the lead pollster on th…
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Jun 27, 2021
The Libertarians Are Doing Their Best (ft. Jon Murray of The Denver Post)
This week, the Colorado Republican Bench is down to one candidate—what office will Heidi Ganahl run for and lose in 2022? The Big Line is back; we discuss why the Dead Guvs are the best prognosticators in Colorado Politics; teaching about racism isn’t racist, no matter how hurt your feelings get, white people; we have a new segment about Twitter, and it will come in 280 character bursts; and we talk about our 6th and 7th favorite congresspeople from Colorado. But first, Jon Murray, Enterprise and Transportation Reporter from the Denver Post, joins us to talk about his weekend feature on the Libertarian Party’s 50 years of not-making-a-very-big-impact on politics in Colorado or anywhere else and the historic, bipartisan transportation bill that was signed into law last week.
The Libertarian Party, born in Colorado 50 years ago, still seeks elusive mainstream acceptance by Jon Murray (The Denver Post | June 20, 2021)
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: B…
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Jun 18, 2021
Biggest Legislative Session Ever (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
The first regular session of the 73rd Colorado General Assembly has come to a close! We tell you what the hell happened, give you the rundown of this year’s Winners and Losers, and debate the proper pronunciation of sine die; Lauren Boebert goes from embarrassing herself to embarrassing the good people of Pueblo and they’re not happy about it; some guy who won’t be a US Senator is running against Michael Bennet; we report on some not so shocking news about Colorado’s vaccination rate and it’s...pretty good; 30% of 30% percent of the country thinks Donald Trump will be reinstated as president...any day now...any day now...BUT FIRST we interview the Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives Alec Garnett!
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jun 9, 2021
Stop Trying to Make "Gerrymandering" Happen. It's Not Going to Happen.
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we talk at length about the filibuster; we pour one out for Donald Trump’s Livejournal and encourage him to try Friendster next; we flip our Legislating with Crayons segment on its head and instead decide to legislate with laser printers and fountain pens; Colorado Republicans are using last-decade’s lies to discuss this year’s redistricting process; Lauren Boebert essentially argues for the extrajudicial killing of Dr. Fauci; and the good people of Aurora deserve so, so much better than Mike Coffman and his merry band of hacks who are campaigning to join him on Aurora City Council.
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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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May 27, 2021
Legislating With Lunatics
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, most Republicans continue to live in an alternative universe where Donald Trump is still President, we ask why the hell they would possibly want to do such a thing; our segment Legislating with Crayons gets its own segment, Legislating with Lunatics; we revisit the one play in the Colorado GOP playbook (and no, it’s not “trying to win more elections"); we visit with the three least powerful yet most noisy members of Colorado’s congressional delegation; and our last statewide Republican elected official does her level best to lose whichever thing she’s running for next before even telling anyone what it is.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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May 22, 2021
The Big Lie is the Only Truth (ft. California/Canada Jason Bane)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, for Republicans, the Big Lie is the Only Truth; we find more voter fraud (can you guess who did it this time?); the Colorado Republican Party gets Q-curious, again; we’re counting down to Sine Die and we’ll tell you what that means; we FINALLY have an excuse to talk about Doug Lamborn, and boy it’s a doozy; and we check in with the only likely statewide Republican candidate for...something. But first, Canadian Jason Bane returns! We ask if he’s moving back to the States now that Donald Trump is no longer president.
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May 9, 2021
The Bill Formerly Known As The Public Option (ft. Jake Williams of Healthier Colorado)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, POLLS POLLS POLLS! We dig into the numbers so you don’t have to. Donald Trump is a sad, sad man; the GOP is the party of "No"….ideas; we have a double-barrel of "What the Buck?!" and "The Boebert Report"; our neighbors to the East have some really wacko lawmakers (and no we’re not talking about Nebraska’s weird unicameral legislature); finally, we sit down with Jake Williams, executive director of powerhouse advocacy organization Healthier Colorado and host of The Wooden Teeth Podcast. We ask him to explain the bill formerly known as the public option.
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Apr 30, 2021
Ghosted by Boebert (ft. Charles Ashby)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’re getting a new Congressional district, and so are you; Lauren Boebert is worse now; it turns out that when you put people who like government in charge of government, people like what they get; there’s an imaginary war on red meat (as Ian brines an 18 pound brisket for homemade pastrami; a current Colorado Republican Lawmaker is a former California Congressional Candidate; and we interview Charles Ashby, dean of the Colorado press corps (probably) and politics reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. We ask him why are things like this.
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Apr 23, 2021
Guns, Globes, and Getting Vaccinated
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, 2021 is already on track to set the record for mass shootings in the USA. It’s Earth Day, Week, and Month here in snowy Colorado in late April. The Colorado option gets confusing for people who don’t want you to have healthcare, and we discover that the Colorado January 6th Insurrectionist, state Rep. Ron Hanks, has a seriously racist misunderstanding of history and the constitution. We keep shouting WHAT THE BUCK about the jingoistic America First Caucus which may or may not include our 7th favorite congressperson from Colorado, Lauren Boebert.
Tell your legislator to support climate legislation: bit.ly/coclimate.
*Producer's note: We recorded this episode before the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd, so we don't discuss it in the episode.
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Apr 14, 2021
Boebert Conquers the "Spirit Realm"
The Colorado legislature takes another run at a Colorado healthcare option to lower costs and increase quality, John Boehner is still crying, smoking cigarettes, and throwing other Republicans under the bus, and the new Colorado GOP chair is just as bad as the last one (if not somehow worse). It’s infrastructure week, for real this time, an again, we might get that train we’ve been talking about for a long, long time. The lying liars are just lying and it’s exhausting trying to keep up, and Lauren Boebert takes ground in the spirit realm before sharing conspiracy theories at Club 20.
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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Apr 9, 2021
All-Stars and A-Holes
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, that guy we talked about last week got shelled, Colorado is a bunch of ALL STARS because of our awesome non-racist voting systems, and Major League Baseball took notice. We have many more reasons to do another edition of Legislating with Crayons, there is yet another recall scam going after one of the most popular governors in the country, and yes, Lauren Boebert said and did more horrible things since we last spoke. Also, we all got our shots!
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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Apr 1, 2021
The Election Truther Chairing the Redistricting Committee
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Colorado Republican Party elects arguably their least electorally successful member to be their chair, there is a conspiracy theorist chairing the congressional redistricting commission, we discuss whether he believes maps exist, it’s actually infrastructure week for the first time in at least 5 years, we legislate with crayons once again, and we explain to Lauren Boebert who the anti-fascists in 1930’s Germany were fighting.
*Links*
* 4 of the 5 candidates running to lead the Colorado GOP are still casting doubt on the 2020 election results (The Colorado Sun, 3/17/21)
* Kristi Burton Brown elected as next Colorado GOP chair, vows to bring “a new generation of leadership” (The Colorado Sun, 3/27/21)
* "Danny Moore is an election rigging conspiracy theorist, and the chair of the 12-person commission that will redraw Colorado's Congressional Districts." (Twitter, @nexton9news, 3/29/21)
* Joe Biden’s coming infrastructure…
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Mar 22, 2021
BONUS: Senator John Hickenlooper Gets More Smarter
*Senator *John Hickenlooper updates us on life in the US Senate, the COVID relief bill, his thoughts on the filibuster, and whether he'll take Jason to Area 51 as part of his new role as Chair of the Space and Science Subcommittee.
*Note: Our interview with Senator Hickenlooper ended before news of the shooting at the Boulder King Soopers appeared on social media, which is why we don't mention it in the interview. On Monday evening, Senator Hickenlooper tweeted :
"They were just grocery shopping.
I can't imagine what the families of these Coloradans are experiencing. My heart goes out to them.
We don't know all the details yet, but we DO know our country has a horrific problem with gun violence. We need federal action. Now."
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Mar 19, 2021
Legislating With Crayons
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans keep trying to make it harder to vote while admitting it is because they’re worried they’ll keep losing if everyone can vote, Democrats are good now, and your bank account probably is too, we visit the State Capitol for another edition of Legislating with Crayons, AND because she won’t stop saying and doing awful things, we have another issue of the Boebert Report.
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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Mar 9, 2021
Using a Giant Carrot as a Stick
We’re a year into the pandemic! Democrats in Congress passed a $1.9 trillion dollar aid package that never, ever would have happened without Georgia, Arizona, and Colorado doing our jobs. We get to revisit one of our favorite segments about our second least-favorite congressperson from Colorado. Trump sucks. Things get real at the state legislature. Finally, we round it all out with our very favorite segment about our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado.
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Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Mar 5, 2021
Saying No to Boebert's No to Our Noes
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the CPAC conference was a lot of things, but “conservative” wasn’t one of them. Despite absolutely no evidence of election fraud, Colorado Republicans are bringing a bunch of bills to make it harder to vote. The Colorado legislature is back in session after a COVID break. Finally, Lauren Boebert continues to embarrass Colorado on many different national stages.
*Articles*
* Lauren Boebert: Alt-Facts Word Salad At CPAC (Colorado Pols, 2/28/21)
* Colorado GOP Won’t Be Out-Crazied by National Republicans (Colorado Pols, 2/25/21)
* Help Wanted: Colorado GOP seeks a leader after years of election losses (Denver Post, 2/27/21)
* Investigate, Please: Boebert Reimbursement Scandal Deepens (Colorado Pols, 2/23/21)
* Boebert Deserved Even More Than $22,260 for Mileage, Says Former Campaign Manager (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)
* Boebert Calls Bullcrap On Colorado’s Public Lands (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)
* Boebert Ridicule Intensifies…
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Feb 9, 2021
Impeachment 2: Trumplectric Trumpaloo
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Impeachment 2 Trumplectric Trumpaloo, we keep apologizing to the rest of the country for Lauren Boebert’s very existence, and the first serious contender to take her out announces. Since we seem to have avoided an **actual** civil war, the GOP is entering into one of their very own. We go back to 2009 and discuss whether or not Democrats have learned any lessons about governing on the federal level, we preview the 2021 legislative session, and yes, it is already time to talk about the 2022 election.
Colorado Impeachment Managers
* “Donald Trump Incited Violence to Maintain Power, and People Died”: The Democrats Arguing the Case Against Trump Will Bring Their Own Experience to Bear (Vanity Fair, 2/5/21)
The Boebert Report
* Boebert Mileage Reimbursement Scandal Gets Official Complaint (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)
* Like We Said, Lauren Boebert’s Mileage Maths Don’t Add Up (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)
* Rep. Lauren Boebert’s mileag…
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Feb 2, 2021
Weld County, Wyoming (ft. Speaker Alec Garnett)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it may be 2021 but it sure FEELS like 2020??? The Boebert Report turned out to be a pretty prescient segment, Michael Bennet introduces a big big bill in the US Senate, but why? We’re still saying "WHAT THE BUCK?!" as a large portion of his congressional district wants to leave Colorado and join Wyoming, despite the lies and the spin, the economy is still suffering (but not for the reasons right wingers are telling us) and we interview Speaker of the House Alec Garnett about the status of the Colorado Legislature.
Links
* President Biden Makes a Joke (Aaron Rupar, Twitter)
* Meet Some Of The 4,600 Colorado Republicans Who Quit The Party After The US Capitol Riot (CPR News, 1/27/21)
* How Do Republicans Solve Their Qaucus Problem? (Colorado Pols, 1/27/21)
* Does a Party Lose for Doing Too Much or Too Little? (Seth Masket, Mischiefs of Faction, 1/26/20)
* Campaign Kicks Off To Give Wyoming Weld-Sized Package (1/22/21)
* Science M…
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Jan 19, 2021
We Tried To Warn You About Boebert
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, welcome to 2021! Things aren’t any better! The legislature is not convening this week due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. We bring to you our latest edition of the Boebert Report entitled “We Tried To Warn You.” We continue to ask ourselves a recurring question, What The Buck?! as the Colorado Republican Party Chairman continues his descent into madness and we talk accountability, consequences, and silver linings from the nearly successful overthrow of the US Government.
Sign ProgressNow's petition calling for Lauren Boebert's resignation: http://bit.ly/ResignBoebert
Listen to our interview with Congressman Jason Crow. (that was initially supposed to be a part of this episode) : https://getmoresmarter.com/2021/01/12/exclusive-rep-jason-crow-on-the-capitol-mob/
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jan 12, 2021
Exclusive: Rep. Jason Crow on the Capitol Mob
In this exclusive interview, Congressman Jason Crow recounts his experience on January 6, 2021 when a violent mob stormed the US Capitol to try and overturn the 2020 presidential election. We also discuss impeachment, Lauren Boebert, and his decisive leadership in a moment of crisis.
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Dec 8, 2020
Speaker KC Becker Gets More Smarter
2020 is finally almost over (thank G-d) and maybe the 2020 election will come to an end sometime too. The 2022 election cycle has already started, there’s yet another scam to try to recall Governor Polis, again, for the third time? Finally, we interview outgoing Speaker of the House KC Becker, after her final-final legislative session, most likely.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Nov 23, 2020
It's Finally Over!!! We Won!!! (ft. Sulita Sualau & Ron Ruggiero of SEIU Local 105)
We break down the results of the 2020 Blue Wave Election in Colorado and try and figure out what the hell happened in states not named Colorado. We’re joined by Sulita Sualau & Ron Ruggiero of SEIU to talk field work in a pandemic, Labor’s past, present and future in Colorado, and what a Biden Presidency plus a progressive trifecta in the Colorado Legislature means for workers in 2021 and beyond.
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Nov 11, 2020
Professor Seth Masket Gets More Smarter
We talk with Professor Seth Masket, director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver, and author of the new book Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020. We talk about what the hell just happened and how Democrats' 2016 loss influences the post-2020 narratives. (Recorded Friday, November 6th)
Follow Professor Masket on Twitter: https://twitter.com/smotus
Buy Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016-2020 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Loss-Democrats-Seth-Masket/dp/1108482120/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1605142821&refinements=p_27%3ASeth+Masket&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Seth+Masket
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Oct 29, 2020
Rep. Diana DeGette Gets More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the 2020 BLUE WAVE is here, especially in Colorado, we find Cory at the bottom of the polls (still), Lauren Boebert continues to do everything she can to make CD3 a race that she loses, and "The Dean of the Colorado Delegation," Congresswoman Diana DeGette, joins us for an interview. We talk COVID-19 vaccine, abortion rights, Lauren Boebert, and get her thoughts on the craziest election of her tenure in office. Big show!
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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Additional Editing by Coby Neuman
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Oct 19, 2020
You Eat An Elephant One Bite At A Time (ft. Laura Packard and Mayor Michael Hancock)
Two interviews this week! First, we talk to Laura Packard — health care activist, stage-four cancer survivor, and bane of Republicans who want to destroy the Affordable Cara Act. Next, we talk with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock joins to talk about the lengthy ballot for Denver voters, homelessness, Black Lives Matter protests, right-wing disinformation campaigns, and more.
Follow Laura on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lpackard
Follow Mayor Hancock on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MayorHancock
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Sep 30, 2020
Get More Weiser (ft. Attorney General Phil Weiser)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, could 2020’s blue wave in Colorado make 2018 look like a tiny ripple in the pond? We find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, deep in Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump’s pockets, we find Trump taking a page from Gardner’s playbook of fake healthcare plans, and we continue to find reasons to revisit our segment *What the Buck??.* We interview Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, and we say goodbye to his old boss, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a titan of the court and yet another feather in 2020’s worst year ever cap. May her memory be a blessing.
*Links*
* Colorado Senate Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democrat (Cook Political Report, 9/23/20)
* Hello Again, Blue Wave (Colorado Pols, 9/23/20)
* Cory Gardner: Sure, Let’s Confirm a New SCOTUS Nominee! (Colorado Pols, 9/21/20)
* After years of promising his own health care plan, Trump settles for rebranding rather than repealing Obamacare (The Washington Po…
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Sep 20, 2020
Is All Politics Local? (ft. Senate President Leroy Garcia)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a new poll shows what lots of other polls are showing, that Trump and Gardner are losing by double digits and progressives and their policy positions are popular! Donald Trump knowingly lied about the coronavirus, has blood on his hands (including that of 2,000 Coloradans), and Cory Gardner still hasn’t said jack about it. We find Cory auditioning for his next career as a luxury car washer, we revisit some more old political slogans to see if there’s any wisdom in them, and President Leroy Garcia from the great city of Pueblo, CO joins us (46:18).
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Sep 11, 2020
Trump Hates the Troops (ft. Kyra Storojev)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s Ethan’s birthday! Donald Trump is the most anti-military president in history and our second favorite US Senator from Colorado won’t say it. Colorado Republicans don’t send me a thank-you note for the graffiti at the capitol being cleaned up. Congress is working hard while the US Senate is hardly working, We we bring you the latest edition of the Boebert Report, and Kyra Storojev, Democratic candidate for HD-44 joins us.
Kyra Storojev (House District 44)
* Website: http://kyra4colorado.com/
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Sep 4, 2020
Diane Mitsch Bush and Alexis King Get More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast we revisit the Trump Brand Trumpvention, Ken Buck’s fashion choices are just as questionable as the rest of the decision he seems to make on a daily basis, Dudley Brown remains the worst grifter on earth, we find Cory Gardner at the bottom of the barrel, once again, and we have two amazing guests, Alexis King, candidate for District Attorney in Jeffco and Gilpin and Diane Mitsch Bush, the next Congresswoman from Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.
*Diane Mitsch Bush (39:09)*
* Diane Mitsch Bush for CD3: https://dianeforcolorado.com/
*Alexis King (1:06:25)*
* Alexis King for District Attorney: https://www.alexisforda.com/
* Sikh Coalition calls for hate crime charges in Lakewood attack (Arvada Press, 6/30/20)
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Aug 28, 2020
The Slate of Hate (ft. Justine Sandoval)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s a very special back to school episode! We recap the Democratic National Convention that I totally watched all of, promise. We preview the Trump-brand Republican National Convention which I will watch even more of, scout’s honor, really, we bid farewell to our favorite maritally confusing counselor to the president, we zoom in on the worst vice president since Aaron Burr, we find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado trying to horse excrement his way into a second term, another edition of the Boebert Report highlights some news for our second favorite candidate for congressional district 3, the self-proclaimed “pro-life” party is an absolute death cult, and Justine Sandoval from COBALT joins us to play Colorado’s favorite political podcast based gameshow about conspiracy theories, QDonkulous.
**Note, this episode was recorded on Monday morning, August 24th before massive protests in Kenosha, WI after police shot Jacob Blak…
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Aug 20, 2020
Cardboard Cory - The Documentary: The Podcast (ft. Nick Rosen and Erik Maulbetsch)
We interview filmmaker Nick Rosen about his new Cardboard Cory documentary and check in with journalist Erik Maulbetsch of The Colorado Times Recorder about a QAnon rally in Denver.
Also, we talk Kamala Harris as the VP pick, find Cory writing empty bills and advertising everywhere but in Colorado, get an update on the GOP's war against the post office, check Lauren Boebert's arrest records, and so much more.
Cardboard Cory - The Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hfDc0Vp87E
Erik's article about QAnon: https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/08/denver-anti-child-sex-trafficking-march-rooted-in-qanon-conspiracy-theories/28841/
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Aug 12, 2020
Santa Cory and the Do Nothing GOP
Americans are still struggling from the effects of the Pandemic which broke 5 million cases in the US alone over the weekend and claimed the lives of 162,000 Americans to say nothing of the economic effects made much worse by Senate Republican inaction, Trump signs executive orders that are probably illegal and definitely inadequate, and hey, no one is listening to Donald Trump anyway, our 2nd favorite US Senators tells Coloradans to Take a Hike! self-proclaimed pro-police demonstrators physically assault Black Lives Matter counter-protesters and film it all themselves, and everything is still generally terrible.
*Links*
* A president ignored: Trump’s outlandish claims increasingly met with a collective shrug (The Washington Post, 8/9/20)
* Top GOP super PAC launching $21M Senate ad blitz this month (POLITICO, 8/5/20)
* AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false push on preexisting conditions (AP News, 8/8/20)
* Trump keeps promising an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system tha…
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Aug 5, 2020
Future Taiwanese Lobbyist Cory Gardner
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast Senate Republicans keep shouting O’Doyle Rules as their car flies off the coronavirus cliff, We find our second favorite US Senator boning up on his mandarin in preparation for his next job, QAnon makes it to the White House, we weigh the relative merits of a little spray-paint against all of the horrible things visited upon this nation since 2016, and we interview yet another Jason Bane marking the first time the podcast has gone INTERNATIONAL!
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jul 31, 2020
Q-Donkulous
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s less than 100 days til the biggest election ever ever ever, Senate Republicans want everyone to become homeless and then sweep them off the streets, we find Cory Gardner not in Washington doing his job, but at a ridiculous photo op with handbag designer and black bean enthusiast, Ivanka Trump, 9News fires an antifascist (and it’s not Ian this time), Aurora Mayor and vanquished former congressman Mike Coffman reminds us why we worked so hard to beat him in 2018, we play a new game, and the podcast turns one year old!
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jul 23, 2020
The Boebert Report (ft. David Ortiz)
Pandemic-Presidential-Pardoning-Pence-Pandering-Vice President-Picking-Palooza! Another edition of the Boebert Report, we can’t seem to find our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner AND we interview David Ortiz, Democratic Candidate for State House in Littleton and Centennial who is running against a dude with an impossible to not snicker at name.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jul 14, 2020
Post-Primary-Processing-Pallooza!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s Post-Primary-Processing-Pallooza! A local gun group pulls the trigger and a tiny little flag that says BANG pops out of the barrel, Cory Gardner wears a mask, Lauren Boebert wears a gun, we tempt the fates by attempting to be light hearted about the coronavirus, even Trump’s fake poll shows him losing by 10 points, and we may get a look at his tax returns after all!
*Links*
* *Why Hickenlooper Beat Romanoff* (Colorado Pols: July 8, 2020)
* *Primary Results Portend GOP Wipeout in November* (Colorado Pols: July 1, 2020)
* *Silverii: Colorado’s far-right was destroyed in the 2020 Republican primary** *(The Denver Post, July 9, 2020)
* *The End Is Near for the Neville Clan* (Colorado Pols: July 6, 2020)
* *“Yosemite Samantha” Hires Crack Team Of Local Crackpots* (Colorado Pols: July 7, 2020)
* *Appearing on Racist Podcast, Boebert Joked She’ll Jello-Wrestle Rep. Ocasio-Cortez* (Colorado Times Recorder: July 7, 2020)…
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Jun 28, 2020
Primary-Prognostication-Palooza!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast it’s Primary-Prognostication-Palooza! The President takes a pounding in the polls, a potential politician pretends to be a professional, and more pretentious pablum from some political putzes.
VIDEO: Shelly Landon from Oklahoma
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jun 18, 2020
CO Legislature Review (ft. Rep. Chris Kennedy)
Donald Trump’s collapsing poll numbers, Andrew Romanoff and John Hickenlooper square off in three debates for the chance to take on our second favorite senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, who put out the worst ad we’ve seen all cycle so far, possibly in our lives, and we interview Colorado House Assistant Majority Leader, our friend and yours, State Representative Chris Kennedy about the most confusing legislative session in recent memory.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Jun 11, 2020
Everything You Wish You Knew About Polling (ft. Andrew Baumann)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast we are still getting emails from corporations and nonprofits engaging in performative email allyship. Turd Ferguson makes his debut at the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission, an initially controversial police accountability and reform bill get surprising bipartisan support in the Colorado Senate, and despite all that, the walls are clearly caving in on Colorado Republicans. Plus, our interview with Andrew Baumann, Senior Vice President of Research at Global Strategy Group (and is really the only one qualified to do any prognosticating on this podcast at all).
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Jun 7, 2020
Protests and Police Violence (ft. Jason Bane of Richmond, VA)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...Coronavirus is not our first topic today as protests about police violence take over headlines...Colorado Republican lawmakers do the worst thing they could have done...we find our second favorite U.S. Senator, Cory Gardner, in a really bad place...and we talk to another person named Jason Bane.
* Producer's note: This episode was recorded on Monday, June 1st. Because current events move so quickly, our discussion on the Black Lives Matter protests in Denver and around the country are slightly outdated. This episode is coming at you later than usual because ProgressNow was focussed on organizing grassroots support for *SB20-217: The Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act*. Please sign our petition and tell your state senator to support this important piece of legislation for police accountability. https://bit.ly/yesonsb217
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May 27, 2020
Abortion Bans = Bad (ft. Jaki Lawrence of Cobalt)
Does the right to contract a deadly virus stop at the tip of your windpipe? The Colorado legislature goes back to session in an alternative universe that barely resembles where they were in March when they shut it down, our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner becomes the first candidate for senate do decline the 9News debate in 22 years because he’s a coward, the great tax cut wars of 2020 begin and one side is a bunch of lying liars, and our latest edition of WHAT THE BUCK? (Because you don’t see Morgan Carroll making a fool out of herself every single week, now do you?) Finally, we interview Jaki Lawrence, Strategic Communications Director for Cobalt, who walks us through yet another partisan abortion ban which will not only go down in flames but also waste a lot of time and money doing so.
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May 18, 2020
Rep. Daneya Esgar Gets More Smarter
We discuss the "free-dumb" to get coronavirus (1:04), FEMA diverts another PPE shipment and fights Ian on Twitter (10:12), Gov. Polis visits the White House with our second-favorite senator from Colorado (Cory Gardner) (15:34), What the Buck? gets an update (20:40), and Joint Budget Committee Chairwoman Rep. Daneya Esgar breaks down the budget crisis facing the state legislature because of the coronavirus pandemic (29:50).
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May 11, 2020
What the B#ck?
This week, two polls in a row spell doom for our second favorite US Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner, everything is totally under control with the coronavirus as cases mount well past a million, Republicans still want to kill Obamacare (even though it’s one of the few things actually helping during this pandemic), the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party commits at least one crime, a white-supremacist-terrorist-anti-virus protestor's plot to throw pipe bombs at FBI agents, and the state budget is totally f#cked ...BUT OTHER THAN THAT, EVERYTHING IS COOL.
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May 3, 2020
U.F.Oh, who even cares?
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we talk about UFOs!...also, the latest on coronavirus, Cory Gardner poppin’ bottles, a potential ballot initiative nightmare this November, and an update on a couple of important stories that we’ve discussed before. House Majority Leader Alec Garnett joins us later to talk about how and when the legislature will return to work.
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Apr 27, 2020
Rep. Joe Neguse Gets More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the coronavirus is still a thing; election laws are merely suggestions; and Colorado Republicans are shooting first and aiming later. We also have a long discussion with Congressman Joe Neguse of CD-2 who tells us what it's like in Congress with everyone wearing masks and how we're moving forward with the next few rounds of coronavirus legislation.
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Apr 18, 2020
Getting Coronavirus to Own the Libs
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…first quarter fundraising numbers for federal campaigns are out, and there’s big news...Republican House Minority Leader Patrick Neville might be the worst person in Colorado...and Republicans can’t yell at the coronavirus so they’re shaking their fists at the people trying to keep us safe.
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Apr 6, 2020
Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets More Smarter
Former-Governor John Hickenlooper, now a candidate for US Senate in Colorado, calls in from his campaign bunker to tell us what it's like to campaign in the age of coronavirus and much more.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
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Apr 3, 2020
COVID Conspiracies
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…we’ll talk with House Majority Leader Alec Garnett for the latest on what the legislature is not doing...we’ll discuss how Republicans are digging themselves one hell of a hole with their wacky coronavirus responses...your hosts make a feeble attempt to support a coronavirus conspiracy argument...and we’ll explain why 2010 Cory Gardner would be perplexed by himself today.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
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Mar 17, 2020
Federal Response to COVID-19 (ft. Congressman Ed Perlmutter)
Congressman Ed Perlmutter (CD-7) informs us about the congressional response to the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19. Also, Ian Silverii's back!
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Producer: Ethan Black
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Mar 13, 2020
Caucuses and Coronavirus
Colorado had a caucus, and nobody came; House Majority Leader Alec Garnett joins us again to talk about the Colorado legislature and how his dog's name ended up in state statute; the presidential primary narrows to Bernie and Biden; the coronavirus shakes up politics; we try to figure out what in the hell is wrong with Ken Buck; and we find Cory hiding out at a bougie billionaire's champagne party.
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Mar 5, 2020
Super Tuesday Spectacular
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…holy crap was that a Super Tuesday. That’s where we spend most of our time today, but we also check in on some more odd behavior by Colorado Republicans (44:48); we’ll look at Cory Gardner’s 2020 campaign narrative (39:53); and House Majority Leader Alec Garnett joins us again for an update on the state legislature (18:14).
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Feb 27, 2020
Surveys, Sausage Making, and Sanders (ft. Fawn Bolak)
We get some fascinating new polling insights from Fawn Bolak (1:10), House Majority Leader Alec Garnett is back to take us through the latest in legislative sausage making (14:16), President Trump makes a bananas visit to Colorado Springs (35:27), we’re feeling the Bern (whether we like it or not) (50:25), and much, much more.
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Feb 19, 2020
Gardner on Guard
This week, the Presidential candidates are coming to Colorado; new polling on impeachment is bad news for Sen. Cory Gardner; and voter and demographic changes hint at more trouble for Republicans.
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Feb 11, 2020
You've Got Questions; These Aren't Answers
Cory Gardner’s impeachment debacle; a wacky vacancy committee underscores Republican troubles in 2020; we finally, maybe have Iowa caucus results; and House Majority Leader Alec Garnett gives us another legislative update from under the Gold Dome.
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Feb 5, 2020
Impeach the Iowa Caucuses
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast...House Majority Leader Alec Garnett joins us again for an exclusive view of the legislature from inside the building; the Iowa caucuses devolve into lunacy; the last gasp of impeachment; and federal fundraising numbers open up a big window into 2020.
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Jan 29, 2020
#CoverUpCory
House Majority Leader Alec Garnett joins us again for an update on legislatin’ under the Gold Dome, John Bolton’s bombshell shakes up impeachment (which changes faster than we can record), and we’re one week away from the Iowa caucuses.
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Jan 22, 2020
Colorado as an Abortion Safe-Haven (ft. Madeleine Schmidt)
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, there’s an impeachment trial in the Senate — or is it OF the Senate (1:08), the New York Times tries to find Cory Gardner (13:33), we try to explain the greater meaning of the departure of a Denver Post conservative columnist (44:49), and we interview journalist Madeline Schmidt about her national reporting on Colorado’s unique abortion laws (22:10).
Read Madeleine's article on Jezebel:
* The Desperate Trail to Safe-Haven Abortions in Colorado (Madeleine Schmidt, Jezebel, 1/6/20)
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Other Articles
* The White House doubles down on its dumbest impeachment defense (Paul Waldman, Washington Post, 1/20/20)
* Where Is Cory Gardner? (Elaina Plott, New York Times, 1/19/20)
* Steve Staeger Greets Cory Gardner at DIA (9News, Twitter, 1/16/20)
* Canceled: Jon Caldara (ColoradoPols, 1/20/20)
* Amy Klobuchar a…
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Jan 14, 2020
Weak, Frightened, and Impotent
Majority Leader Alec Garnett phones in from the capitol, Republicans on the national level are out for Cory Gardner's blood with a new ad, the third president to be impeached is facing a trial in the US Senate (will it be fair or just a cover-up?), Iran becomes even more problematic, and a bunch of people who claim they don't want government interfering in your life march on the state capitol to insist that government interfere in your life.
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Jan 10, 2020
The Colorado Legislature Gets More Smarter
We kick off the 2020 legislative session recording from the state capitol, we may or may not be at war with Iran, Cory Gardner gets caught in the impeachment snare once again, we interview House Majority Leader Alec Garnett about legislative priorities and he becomes the latest contestant on the worlds worst game show, Duke or Donald.
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Dec 24, 2019
2019 Gets More Smarter
We wrap up with a look at the biggest stories of 2019, make some prognostications for 2020, Jason Bane finally plays Duke or Donald, and we talk about much more in our final episode of 2019.
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Dec 17, 2019
Gov. Jared Polis Gets More Smarter
Governor Jared Polis dishes about his first year as governor and throws shade at New Mexican green chile, the US House of Representatives is slated to impeach the president of the United States for the third time in American History, Congressman Ken Buck gets called out for truancy, our second favorite US Senator from Colorado (Cory Gardner) decides if he wants to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump after the president promises to be in Colorado “lots”, and more white supremacists show their faces for radio and voices for silent film as 710KNUS comes under renewed scrutiny for harboring neo-nazis.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
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Dec 10, 2019
Buck, Buck, Neguse!
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast Donald Trump is an anti-Semitic piece of garbage who should absolutely be impeached, we find Cory Gardner at the bottom of the gutter in a new poll, and Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton catches a primary challenge from a heavily armed West Slope barkeep.
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Dec 3, 2019
If You Can't Defend Impeachment, Make Stuff Up!
Impeachment enters a new phase with Colorado connections, state lawmakers say more gun safety legislation is coming, and Cory Gardner’s BLM move gets even worser. Alan Franklin (ProgressNow Colorado political director) subs in for Ian Silverii, who's out teaching orphan goats how to recycle.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
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Nov 26, 2019
Jim Jordan's Jibber Jabber (ft. Katie Farnan)
This week, Chewbaca made an appearance at impeachment-a-lago while Rep. Ken Buck blew off the hearings, the US Senate primary is a slog, Trump applies maximum pressure to the wrong Korea, and Cory Gardner’s worst nightmare, Katie Farnan, plays Duke or Donald.
Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
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Nov 19, 2019
The Sideshow Bob Defense
This week on Colorado's bestest political podcast, impeachment-a-lago gets serious, Doug Lamborn attempts to make himself useful and fails, Ken Buck straps on his best Sideshow Bob costume two-weeks after Halloween, Cory Gardner celebrates two years without a townhall, irrelevant Colorado House Republicans attempt to bring a ballot initiative to make a law that's already a law a law, again, and fairy godmother of the #resistance, Jessica Zender, plays Duke or Donald.
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Nov 12, 2019
Post-Election Analysis
This week, the latest effort to save the state from TABOR’s claws goes down, the 2019 election gets messy in a top swing county, washed up old politicians trying to be relevant get smacked down by the Denver Post Editorial Board, Impeachment-a-lago gets real this week, and our Producer Ethan Black goes head to head with yours truly in America’s worst game show, Duke or Donald.
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Nov 5, 2019
Trump's Impeachment, Cory Gardner's 100k Bribe, and Colorado Labor
This week, Republicans are trapped between a rock and a hairpiece as the impeachment process gets formalized in the United States House of Representatives, guest Geof Cahoon plays Duke or Donald and teaches us about the Colorado labor movement, Donald Trump buys himself a friend in Colorado Senator Cory Gardner with a cool hundred-thousand dollars, which Gardner will apparently be putting into very-weird pro-oil company advertisements, the US House passes the CORE act thanks to our friend Joe Neguse, and by the time you listen to this episode, it'll be election day in Colorado, so we do some prognosticating and you'll find out how right or wrong we are.
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Oct 29, 2019
Colorado's Big, Beautiful Border Wall
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Colorado Republican Party Chairman and Congressional Hobbyist Ken Buck tries to throw the failed recall hot potato into someone else’s lap, Cory Gardner Gets President Trump’s Back (duh), a major Colorado newspaper demands Gardner’s resignation from office, and, as usual, the Colorado GOP is in a really, really, super bad spot heading into 2020. We also play Duke or Donald with Fawn Bolak of Keep Abortion Safe and prognosticate a border wall in Colorado.
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Oct 22, 2019
Recall-A-Lago
This week, Recall-A-Lago comes to a sad and anticlimactic end as Colorado Republicans attempt to distance themselves from the wreckage, Cory Gardner whiffs yet another chance to say out loud that it’s wrong to solicit foreign interference in an election (26:26), and a new poll finds him badly, badly underwater (12:40). The US Senate Democrats in a primary to take on Gardner in 2020 report their latest fundraising numbers and our friend Manny plays the worst game in Colorado, Duke or Donald (50:55).
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Oct 15, 2019
Rep. Jason Crow Gets More Smarter
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the fallout from the Cory Gardner national-media-meltdown last Friday, we play another round of the incredibly difficult game *Duke or Donald*, and we interview Congressman Jason Crow from Colorado's sixth congressional district.
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Oct 8, 2019
Duke or Donald?
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, a friend of the show tries to find Cory Gardner at a Trump fundraiser in New York City, Impeachment-a-lago gets worse and weirder, we discuss whether or not Denver should elect their sheriff, talk about the two initiatives on this November’s ballot, do a little prognosticating, and we play a new game!
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Oct 1, 2019
Impeachment Mafia ft. Eli Stokols of the LA Times
Eli Stokols of the Los Angeles Times joins us from Washington D.C. to talk about his breaking news story about President Trump calling for the death of the Ukraine whistle-blower. He also talks about the impending impeachment inquiry of the President of the United States and what that means for our second favorite senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner. The recall grift gets even more obvious and even "griftier," and will Congressman Ken Buck get impeached himself from the chairmanship of the state Republican party?
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*Articles*
* Listen: Audio of Trump discussing whistleblower at private event: ‘That’s close to a spy’ (Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 9/26/19)
* GOP is playing a weak hand in defending Trump on Ukraine (Meet the Press, NBC News, 9/30/19)
* Colorado's Cory Gardner to be featured at Trump/GOP fundraiser in New York (Caitlin Curley, Colorado Politics, 8/28/19)
* No Escape For Gardner As Impeachment Crisis Consumes D.C. (Colorado…
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Sep 23, 2019
Ukraine in the Membrane
Today on The Get More Smarter Podcast, we talk Ukraine and impeachment (1:08), Cory Gardner prepares to explain himself (8:50), the BLM will share an office building with the real decision-makers—oil and gas companies (14:39), climate change gets more popular (18:38), and is the Democratic nomination for president a two-candidate race (23:50)?
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Sep 17, 2019
You Can Still Get In Trouble For Saying Nothing
This week, Cory Gardner is very sad, a celebration of saying nothing, one more recall to spell out, a fundraiser mystery (sort of) in Aspen, a clever chess move in a Denver primary race, and thinning out the Democratic Senate primary. Alan Franklin guests hosts because Ian Silverii is out of town.
*Articles Mentioned*
* Cory Gardner is Very Sad That You Don’t Love BLM Move (Colorado Pols | 9/10/19)
* A Tale of Two Headlines, Starring Cory Gardner (Colorado Pols | 9/13/19)
* Sen. Gardner cheers Trump administration decision to drop water protection rule (Fox 31 via The Associated Press | 9/12/19)
* Sen. Cory Gardner touts environmental record ahead of 2020 election (Liz Weber [@liz_a_weber] | The Durango Herald | 3/27/19)
* Colorado Matters: Perspective On Failed Recalls; Why Colorado Once Closed Its Border (Ryan Warner [@CPRWarner] | Colorado Public Radio | 9/12/19)
* BREAKING: Recall Attempts Against Sens. Lee, Pettersen Fail (Colorado Pols | 9/10/19)
* After failed…
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Sep 9, 2019
Cory Gardner's No Good Very Bad Summer
We find Cory Gardner having a bad time on CNN and in the opinion section of the paper of record, an outgoing Denver Post reporter profiles the GOP's empty bench, Bureau of Land Management staff freak out about the poorly planned move to Colorado, and another high profile recall bites the dust.
*Mentioned*
* Coloradans push Gardner on gun control ahead of marquee Senate race (Clare Foran, CNN, 9/8/19)
* Editorial: Now we know Gardner failed to protect Colorado from cuts in addition to failing the U.S. Constitution (Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 9/8/19)
* Can these three Republicans save the Colorado GOP from obscurity? (Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, 9/8/19)
* Hold Your Wild Horses: Opposition To BLM GJ Move Escalates (Colorado Pols, 9/6/19)
* Dozens Of Former BLM Officials Send A Letter To Bernhardt Urging Him To Reconsider Grand Junction Move (Stina Sieg, CPR News, 9/5/19)
* BLM staffers rip relocation plans in closed-door meeting (Scott Streater, E&E News, 9/6/19)
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Sep 4, 2019
Fake Outrage, Fake Hamburgers, & Fake Town Halls
This week, we talk about the elimination of Mikes from the CO Senate primary, Jason Crow gets his first real opponent in the race to keep CD-6, Colorado Republicans throw a Support Our Stormtroopers rally in Aurora, a local reporter gets taken for a ride by Cory Gardner's comms staff, and fake outrage over fake hamburgers. It's time to Get More Smarter.
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Aug 27, 2019
Modest Culottes and Cory Collisions
John Hickenlooper officially drops a bomb in our hurricane of a US Senate primary, Cardboard Cory Gardner and non-Cardboard Cory Gardner meet for the first time in real life, a bunch of stupid things happen in the Pueblo recall during the state fair, a Republican state senator gets a little ghostwriting help from an oil and gas industry flak in Texas, and whether or not women's pants will be the key issue of the 2020 elections (Hint: it won't). It's time to Get More Smarter.
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Aug 19, 2019
Tom Steyer Gets More Smarter
Presidential candidate Tom Steyer stops by to talk about climate change, money in politics, and whether or not the US should buy Greenland.
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Aug 11, 2019
Inaccessibility is the Brand
We find No Comment Cory in Wheat Ridge and analyze why Colorado's gun violence prevention laws save lives.
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Constituents confront Cory Gardner on guns and immigration (Denver Post)
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Kyle Clark confronts Cory (9 News)
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‘They’re afraid’: Suburban voters in red states threaten GOP’s grip on power (Washington Post)
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Aug 6, 2019
Republicans Won't Do Anything To Prevent Gun Violence (But What Else Is New?)
This week, we talk about the cowardly responses from Republican leaders to back to back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso Texas.
Later on, we try and locate one of the NRA’s top five Senators as he dodges town halls and any major Colorado news outlet in our recurring segment, Finding Cory.
And finally, we prognosticate about the 2020 elections, whether gun-violence prevention will be a major electoral issue, and speculate on a possible Senate run from John Hickenlooper.
It’s time to Get More Smarter.
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Jul 31, 2019
Rep. Ken Buck (R) Does Democrats' Jobs For Them
It's time to Get More Smarter. We talk about Gov Hickenlooper's presidential chances, who's running for the Dem CO Senate nomination, and do our best to follow the corporate money into Cory's campaign bank account.
In "Finding Cory," we try and figure out why Cory ghosted VP Pence for his own fundraiser in Windsor to vote for giving the Saudi's more guns and sell our public lands to oil and mining companies.
We give credit to the hero of the Mueller congressional hearings, Greeley Representative Ken Buck. Rep. Buck, also the CO GOP chair, more or less made it clear that you could arrest Trump for crimes he committed before and after his election when he leaves office.
Finally, we "prognosticate" about a radical abortion ban that anti-abortion extremists want to put on the 2020 ballot and how Colorado is a safe haven for women from other states seeking reproductive care.
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*Host: Ian Silverii (@iansilverii), Progres…
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Jul 24, 2019
Finding Cory
It's time to Get More Smarter. In the inaugural episode of The Get More Smarter Podcast, we search for our second-favorite Senator from the state of Colorado and tear down the people behind recalls on progressive state senators.
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*Host: Jason Bane (@jason_bane), ColoradoPols.com*
*Host: Ian Silverii (@iansilverii), ProgressNowColorado.org
Producer: Ethan Black (@ethanblack)
*Finding Cory Links*
* Denver talk radio host Steffan Tubbs laughs at Cory for turning his head to Trump's racism (710 KNUS)
* Trump's racist tweets
* Cory ghosts Kyle Clark (Next With Kyle Clark on 9 News)
* A new era dawns (Grand Junction Sentinel, July 16, 2019)
* BLM move still a coup (Grand Junction Sentinel, July 17, 2019)
* Enthusiasm Wanes Over BLM Move to Grand Junction (ColoradoPols.com, July 17, 2019)
*Recall Links*
* In some states, GOP sees the recall as its way back to power. (James Anderson, AP News)
* Pettersen Recall Gets Recalled After 3 Days (ColoradoPols.…
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